‘So much death’: LA hospital reels at center of Covid storm
14 January 2021 |
7:00 am
The intensive care unit at the Martin Luther King Jr Community Hospital, in one of Los Angeles' poorest districts, is well-accustomed to death, but with the city now at the heart of the United States's Covid-19 pandemic, medics say they have never seen anything on this scale.
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